Yet Another Yarn Shop

This is a pic of me with the lovely Nancy, proprietor of Woven Art in East Lansing. I always look for knitting shops as we travel and I picked this one out of the phone book as there were a few and I could only visit one if we intended to make the Canadial border by midnight!

Nancy welcomed me into her lair, she was showing a lady the wonders of knittng at the time, and I got to browse and poke about.

For some reason I got the hand knitting bug on the drive home from the Chicago One of a Kind show and have been going hell bent for leather since. I got some lovely Alpaca at Woven art that Nancy had dyed herself, a beautiful lavender/grey.

Behind where we’re standing is her large studio full of more work, fibre art and weaving looms. She has a great selection of yarns and pattern books so if you’re en route through Michigan or live close go visit Nancy.

The senitment above the studio window says it all…….

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